The lifetime achievement award is given to individuals
who made outstanding contributions to the state of the art in
electronic design, electronic design automation and testing of
electronic systems in their life. In order to be eligible, candidates
must have made innovative contributions which had an impact on the way
electronic systems are being designed.

The goal of granting the award is to make the excellent work done by
people working within the scope described above more widely known and
to help to publicize the results.